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The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults
positive and negative predictive value and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated to ascertain which algorithm is more accurate. RESULTS: The database included a total of 94 community-dwelling older ...
Developing evidence-informed indicators to monitor HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes across EU/EEA countries: a multi-stakeholder consensus
Eurosurveillance, Volume 28, Issue 23 (2023) Keywords: Europe HIV Monitoring PrEP prevention Abstract: Several countries in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) established and/or scaled up HIV ...
COVID-19 pandemic response in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion: methods, participation and recommendations of a longitudinal cross-border study
regulations Meuse-Rhine Euroregion Pandemic preparedness Pandemic response Prospective longitudinal studies SARS-CoV-2 Abstract: BACKGROUND: Comparative data collection in transborder areas can contribute to ...
Interim 2022/23 influenza vaccine effectiveness: six European studies, October 2022 to January 2023.
in different areas.AimTo provide interim 2022/23 influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates from six European studies, covering 16 countries in primary care, emergency care and hospital inpatient ...
COVID-19 pandemic response in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion: methods, participation and recommendations of a longitudinal cross-border study
transborder areas can contribute to informed decision making processes when dealing with borderless health threats such as pandemics, and thus help minimize the negative health effects for its citizens. To ...
Estimating Years of Life Lost due to COVID-19 over the first two years of the pandemic in Cyprus: comparisons across areas, age, and sex
estimated. We aimed to determine YLL linked to COVID-19 over the first two years (March 2020–March 2022) of the pandemic in Cyprus, by areas, and by age and sex. COVID-19 YLL was estimated by multiplying ...
Inequalities in mortality associated with housing conditions in Belgium between 1991 and 2020
if the population of the whole country faced the mortality rates experienced in areas that are least deprived in terms of housing. METHODS: We used individual-level mortality data extracted from the ...
Understanding sexual transmission dynamics and transmission contexts of monkeypox virus: a mixed-methods study of the early outbreak in Belgium (May-June 2022).
OBJECTIVE: The available epidemiological and clinical evidence from the currently ongoing monkeypox (MPX) outbreak in non-endemic areas suggests an important factor of sexual transmission. However, limited ...
Epidemiological, clinical and radiological characteristics of people with neurocysticercosis in Tanzania-A cross-sectional study.
settings. Prevalence of NCC and radiological characteristics of patients with NCC vary considerably even within small areas but differences have been poorly characterized so far. METHODS: We conducted ...
Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
(EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) over the last decade. However, there remain considerable disparities in the rate of decline and the burden of new HIV infections between countries and among ...